Political Quotes

“The Senator has asked the $64,000 question, in a way, and I can hazard a guess. My guess would be this: that the nature of gun ownership has changed over the years. It used to be that over 50 percent of Americans owned guns. Most only owned one gun, but the majority of Americans owned guns some 30 years ago. Today that number is rapidly decreasing. Now 30-some odd percent of Americans own guns. It means the nature of the industry is changing. It means the industry now has to sell a smaller number of individuals a larger number of weapons. So part of the marketing technique by the industry--and the industry is essentially equated to the NRA. It is the industry that funds the NRA in substantial part. Part of the marketing necessity of the industry is to create this belief in the government any day approaching your house to confiscate your weapons. So every initiative to just try to enact commonsense gun laws is distorted by the industry as just another attempt to get closer to the day in which black helicopters swoop down on your house and steal away all of your weapons. Of course, that is not what we are going at here. It has nothing to do with our agenda. We simply want people on the terrorist watch list to not be able to buy guns and for criminals to not be able to buy guns.…”